Al Jadidah, Hasa, near Al Hofuf Oasis: Middle Miocene, Saudi Arabia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890
Pisces
Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
synonym of Osteichthyes
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
1 specimen
1 maxilla with P4-M2.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Percrocuta sp. Kretzoi 1938
1 specimen
1 maxilla fragment with P2-P4 and M1 alveolus.
Mammalia - Suidae
cf. Lopholistriodon sp. Pickford and Wilkinson 1975
1 specimen
1 upper canine.
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861
front and back feet and isolated teeth.
Mammalia - Bovidae
Protragocerus sp. Deperet 1887
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
Pseudotragus aff. potwaricus
Mammalia - Tragulidae
? Tragulidae indet. Milnes-Edwards 1864
1 specimen
1 distal humerus, possibly Dorcatherium sp.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus cf. primaevus
not very abundant.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Atlantoxerus sp. Major 1893
Sen and Thomas 1979 1 specimen
1 mandible with M1-M3.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Metasayimys intermedius n. sp.
Sen and Thomas 1979 2 specimens
1 mandible with dp4-M2, 1 lower incisor.
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
see common names

Geography
Country:Saudi Arabia
Coordinates: 25.7° North, 49.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.2° North, 47.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hofuf
Stratigraphy comments: Age estimated at 12-13Ma, Vindobien, MN6. The formation contains rare Gastropods, Ostracods and Charophytes.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: The fossils are found in a layer of yellow and white sands with small conglomerates and often very 'indurés'.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:600 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Over 600 vertebrate fossils recovered. Site found during Dam building in 1976. Material provisionally held in the Natural History Museum, Paris, and will be permanently conserved at the 'Universite du Petrole et des Mineraux', Dhahran.
Metadata
Database number:41818
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-07-21 05:48:32 Last modified:2004-07-22 05:52:27
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-21 05:48:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11188.PACED H. Thomas, P. Taquet, G. Ligabue and C. Del'Agonola. 1978. Decouverte d'un gisement de Vertebres dans les depots continentaux du Miocene moyen du Hasa (Arabia saoudite). Comptes Rendus Sommaire des Societé Geologique Francais, Paris (2)69-72 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

11200PACED S. Sen and H. Thomas. 1979. Decouverte de Rongeurs dans la Miocene moyen de la Formation Hofuf (Province du Hasa, Arabie saoudite). Comptes Rendus Sommaire des Societé Geologique Francais, Paris (1)34-37 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]